Kurt Wagner (1 May 1953 – 28 December 2023) was a German television actor.

Life and career

Wagner was born in

Saarlouis Saarlouis (; french: link=no, Sarrelouis, ; formerly Sarre-Libre and Saarlautern) is a town in Saarland, Germany, capital of the district of Saarlouis. In 2020, the town had a population of 34,409. Saarlouis, as the name implies, is located on t ...

in the

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

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on 1 May 1953. In 1984, he played the first-billed male character in all 11 episodes of the television historical drama ''

Heimat ''Heimat'' () is a German word translating to 'home' or 'homeland'. The word has connotations specific to German culture, German society and specifically German Romanticism, German nationalism, German statehood and regionalism so that it ha ...

'' - ''Eine deutsche Chronik'' (equivalent to "Homeland, a German Chronicle"). In the 1990s, he had two more television parts, one in the same role, in an episode of the sequel to ''Heimat''. Wagner died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 70.Kurt Wagner ist gestorben

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* 1953 births 2023 deaths People from Saarlouis German male television actors 20th-century German actors {{Germany-tv-actor-stub